Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Christine M. Kassab, Kathy J. Licht, Rickard Petersson, Katrin Lindbäck, Joseph A. Graly, Michael R. Kaplan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Blue ice; ground-penetrating radar; moraine formation; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Transantarctic Mountains; Achernar; Mount Achernar; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.83; https://doaj.org/article/7ff050a6b0044c6d9cdb86c88d7216f9

Mount Achernar moraine is a terrestrial sediment archive that preserves a record of ice-sheet dynamics and climate over multiple glacial cycles. Similar records exist in other blue ice moraines elsewhere on the continent, but an understanding of how these moraines form is limited. We propose a model...